(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1226)
This manuscript contains one sermon preached by John Carter (1594/5-1655). The sermon has been dated by the present cataloguer according to the handwriting.
Quarto. The spine displays evidence that the volume was once bound in leather.
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
Egerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1979), p. 89; Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 49; Hannah Yip.
See Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.
A Sermon by M:r John Carter -- 15 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated